Maggia (former municipality)
Maggia | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Vallemaggia district | |
Circle : | Maggia district | |
Municipality : | Maggia TI | |
Postal code : | 6673 | |
Coordinates : | 697 892 / 122376 | |
Height : | 332 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 23.88 km² | |
Residents: | 802 (December 31, 2003) | |
Population density : | 34 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.maggia.ch | |
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Maggia ( Lombard [ˈmaʒja ˈmadʒja ˈmaja] ) is a village in the Ticino municipality of Maggia TI , Switzerland . Until April 3, 2004 it formed its own political municipality .
geography
The community is located in the lower and central part of the Maggia Valley northwest of Locarno . The different districts are on both sides of the Maggia .
history
The village was first mentioned in 1200 as de madia, then in 1225 as Madiis and in 1270 as Madia . The place name is a transfer of the river name of the same name and goes back to the feminine form of the Latin comparative māiŏr 'greater'.
Around 1000 the parish church of San Vittore in Muralto dissolved and became the mother church of the Maggia valley. In the Middle Ages the place formed a neighborhood (vicinia). Maggia took part in the conflict of the lower Maggia Valley against Cevio and Bosco / Gurin , which ended in 1403 or 1404 with a peace treaty. Under the Dukes of Milan , the Podestà of the Maggia Valley in the village of Maggia was right. Under the rule of the confederates , Maggia had the right to appoint the bailiff when Schaffhausen designated the bailiff . It sent three deputies to the Talrat and elected one of the judges.
On April 4, 2004, the previously independent municipality merged with the previous municipalities of Aurigeno , Coglio , Giumaglio , Lodano , Moghegno and Someo and has since been part of the newly formed political municipality Maggia TI .
population
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year | 1591 | 1801 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1900 | 1910 | 1930 | 1950 | 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2003 |
Residents | 420 | 414 | 641 | 546 | 471 | 469 | 340 | 317 | 326 | 450 | 521 | 712 | 850 | 802 |
Local civil parish
Active local citizen families are the Bonetti, Casè, Cheda, Garzoli, Genazzi, Magistocchi, Martinelli, Petroni, Quanchi and Tomasi. Borlini, Borlinini, Campigli, De Bernardi (o Debernardi), De Neri, Del Maestro, Giovannini, Meneganti, Negranti, Pedrazzini, Pedrotti, Ricioli, Riscioni, Stocchi, Stocchini and Zanini have been deleted
Attractions
- Parish church of San Maurizio, separated from the collegiate church of San Vittore in Muralto around 1000 . The building, consecrated to Saint Mauritius in 1636, was expanded in 1855 (facade) and 1881 (monumental staircase) and restored in 1996–1998.
- Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie or "di Campagna", built in 1510 on the site of an earlier chapel, contains frescoes from the time it was built and votive pictures by Giovanni Antonio Vanoni .
- former stable of the Martinelli, with a fresco with the birth of Jesus, later Casa Martinelli from the 17th century, in the meantime a school house, today a retirement home
- Oratory Madonna del Carmine
- Saint Luigi Guanella Retirement Home
- Prayer Chapel Santa Maria della Pioda or della Cascata
- Prayer chapel d'Antrobbio, with late Gothic frescoes.
- Atelier Casè, Architects: Emilio Bernegger , Edy Quaglia
On August 4, 2015, the extreme athlete Lazaro Schaller performed a world record cliff jump from a height of 58.8 meters at the Cascada del Salto waterfall north of the village .
literature
- Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Maggia. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Daniela Pauli Falconi: Maggia (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
- Angela and Verio Pini-Legobbe: Santa Maria delle Grazie or "Di Campagna" a Maggia. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 1980.
- Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 6, 13, 56, 63, 121, 143, 184, 220, 246, 251-252, 292, 324-327, 340-341, 348-349, 410-411, 422 .
- Celestino Trezzini : Maggia. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 4: Liebegg - Milan. Attinger, Neuenburg 1927, p. 791 ( digitized version ).
- Stefano Vassere: Maggia. In: Repertorio toponomastico ticinese. DECS, Bellinzona 2000.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Maggia
- Data from the municipality of Maggia
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Maggia (Italian)
- Maggia: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Renzo Dionigi: Madonna delle Grazie church, interior view at www.flickr.com
- Maggia on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 251 f.
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Maggia (community). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Local civil parish of Maggia
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 244-245.
- ^ Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie di Campagna
- ^ Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie
- ↑ Antrobbio on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 18, 2017).
- ↑ Cascada del Salto location
- ↑ New world record in cliff jumping